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Analysts say infiltrating the scoring and timing systems at one of the 35 competition venues around Britain, especially the Olympic stadium in east London, is a target for hackers looking to spread political messages, known as 'hacktivists', and criminal gangs looking to cash in on the Games.
The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door. If you find a DC power port there, take note: With a few hacker tricks and a handful of cheap hardware, that tiny round hole might offer access to your room just as completely as your keycard.
Estonian hacker Aleksandr Suvorov has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in two hacking schemes that involved more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers.
Spammers are currently sending large volumes of spam to users of cloud storage service provider Dropbox. The H's associates at heise Security have so far received four different pieces of German-language spam at an email address used solely to register with Dropbox, and some of their readers have reported the same problem; similar reports can also be found on the Dropbox forums. In almost all cases, the spam is for suspicious-looking online casinos.
The security of high-end handcuffs depends on a detainee not having access to certain small, precisely-shaped objects. In the age of easy 3D printing and other DIY innovations, that assumption may no longer apply.
Phandroid, a popular Android news site, has confirmed that its Android Forums web site was compromised and that private user data has been accessed. According to Phandroid's notice about the security breach, the user table of Android Forum's database was accessed by unknown intruders using a known exploit, which has since been fixed.
As 450,000 passwords exposed, Yahoo fails security 101 -- If it wasn't clear before, it certainly is now: Your username and password are almost impossible to keep safe.
A Java applet determines whether the victim's machine is running Windows, Mac or Linux, then downloads the appropriate malware for the platform. Researchers at F-Secure have uncovered a new Web-based attack that installs backdoors on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X computers.
A hacker claims to have breached and backdoored security and antivirus software firm Trend Micro due to 'pseudo-security' as well as SYKES which runs support services for Trend Micro. According to Pastebin and a dump for 'proof' of the breach, the hacker claims to still be in control of a backdoor into the security firm.
McAfee has collaborated with security firm Guardian Analytics to uncover a ring of online banking criminals who specifically targeted corporate accounts with high balances. According to the two companies' white paper, the fraudsters have attempted to steal at least
More than 79 banks have been breached, claimed a hacker on Twitter. Following a data release on Tuesday, he said he has more than 50 gigabytes of U.S. and foreign bank data in his hands.
About three months ago, following the arrests of five members of an Anonymous spinoff hacker group, an FBI official declared: "We're chopping off the head of LulzSec."
When the latest release of MariaDB was announced in April by MontyProgram AB founder and MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius, it came with a warning from Widenius that a severe security bug had been discovered in previous versions of both MariaDB and MySQL. Oracle subsequently released a patch for MySQL.
Security researchers have released details about a vulnerability in the MySQL server that could allow potential attackers to access MySQL databases without inputting proper authentication credentials.
LulzSec Reborn, the so-called redux of disbanded hacker group LulzSec, leaked around 10,000 Twitter usernames and passwords of members who used TweetGif, an animated Gif-sharing application.
CloudFlare describes itself as a service that protects and accelerates any website, but even a company focused on security can be hacked. Last week, the company and its customer 4Chan, the infamous message board, was attacked by hacking group UGNazi.
A hacking group is claiming to have breached the networks of Warner Bros. and China Telecom, releasing documents and publishing login credentials.
In December 2010 the heat-seeking internet pranksters known as Anonymous attacked PayPal, the online bill-paying business. PayPal had been a conduit for donations to WikiLeaks, the rogue whistle-blower site, until WikiLeaks released a huge cache of State Department internal messages.
You never really know what your most controversial pieces are going to be before you write them. I figured an exploration of what it feels like to have your account hacked in a game would be a relatable topic for many who have suffered something similar.
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